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Abiagenesis Brown's avatar

My favourite poem is by Jenner Jacob’s. When I’m an old women……. I will wear purple.

It tells about the latter stage of life, when you reach the phase of not caring what anyone thinks of you. You are obliged to perform silly behaviours, like wearing slippers in the rain,running your cane along picket fences, learning to spit.

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Wake Lloire's avatar

I love that poem too! I once read it on a bathroom wall and thought, I am excited to be old and to be a part of a community of people who’ve seen enough to know the importance of being silly.

I love you lots!

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Chase Roper's avatar

Stormy pinkness

Human weakness

Fills my johnny cup with gloom

Your progression

My digression

Forty days this afternoon

The things we cherish are small indeed

So much the larger the need

Stormy pinkness

Set me thanklessly free

By John Linnell (from They Might Be Giants (okay, you got me, this is a They Might Be Giants song but you can't say its also NOT a poem!))

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